The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 26, 1933, Page 1

Has Your Organization Held an Affair to Help the Daily Worker? Dail Central Worker taynist Party U.S.A (Section of the Communist International) Vol. X, No. 257 Entered as second-class matter at tho Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8, 187%, NEW YORK, THURDSAY, OCTOBER 26, 1933 _ | Aenenioes Only Working | Class Daily Newspaper WEATHER Fair and Colder ice 3 Cents AILY WORKER NAMES LYNCHERS OF GEORGE ARMW QOD NTERMYER READS “DAILY” NAZI EXPOSE AT HEARING MINOR STIRS CROWDED CITY HALL CHAMBER BY ATTACK ON HITLER, NRA Despite Damning Evidence of Nazi Acti ities Here, Mayor O’Brien “Reserves Decision” Communist Candidate C Cheered As He Links Hitler Polices with the N. R, A. By SENDER GARLIN. NEW YORK.—The sensational revelations regarding Nazi murder plans and espionage in the United States, published in the Daily Worker on Oct. 7, were read into the record by Samuel Untermyer, leader of at an open hearing t day afternoon. The hearing, held in the| tense atmosphere of the Board of Estimate chamber, which was crowded to the ceiling, was called in connection with the efforts of the workers of the city to prevent the ‘Nazi meeting, scheduled for next Sun- day night in the 165th Regiment Armory, Lexington Ave. and 26th St. Mayor O’Brien reserved decision as to whether or not he wou!d forbid the meeting. The corridors of the City Hall were packed long before the hear- ing began. Scores of uniformed plainclothes men were on hand. Chief Inspector John J. Sullivan, in charge of detectives, had or“ered almost the entize personnel of the “alion” and “radical” squads to inmzle with the ctowd at the hear- ing. A few minutes after Untermyer had read the “Daily’s” expose into the record, Robert Minor, Communist candidate for Mayor, electrified the crowded chamber of the Board of Estimate by scathing, bit~- terly ironic denunciation of the Hit- ler murder regime and tock the op- portunity to show how the seeds of fascism “already le in the wings of the Blue Eag! “Tammany o ials winced as the Communist leader declared that “only this morning, in Brook:yn, 1 faced a criminal proszcution just in the fashion of Hitler for the ‘crime’ of in: on the right of the working to picket and to strike and to join unions of their own choice, despite injunctions.” Turning scornfully to Morris Ernst tnd Harry Wei ger, attorneys for! the Civil Liberties Unicon, who had| previously urged that the Nazi meet- ing be permitted on the ground of “free specch to all,” Minor shouted: “These liberals have no time to interfere with the fascism being in- troduced in Mayor O’Brien’s courts, by the courts of the Democratic Party of New York.” Victor M. Ridder and Bernard H. (CONTINUED ON 1 PAGE TWO) Arrest of Borich Is Part of New Deal, Browder Declares Workers Are Urged to Send Protests to Washington NEW YORK.—“The attempt to railroad the deportation of Frank Borich, secretary of the National Miners’ Union, and the furious at- tacks upon the foreign-born by the Department of Labor, are part of the ‘whole New Deal and N. R. A. pro- gram to crush the struggles of the workers of the United States, and is especially a blow against the Penn~ sylvania miners’ strike. This attack 4s part of the plan of the administra- tion to put over the N. R. A. slavery codes,” said Earl Browder in an ap- peal today. “The unity of the black and white, native and foreign-born workers must not be broken,” he continued. “We must stop the deportation of Frank and the other militant leaders of the workingclass who are on Perkins’ list. Every mass organization, local, dis- trict and national, every organiza- tion and individual lpecrnges sy to retary of Labor Frances Perkins, at ‘Washington, demanding cancellation of the deportation warrants against aie and other workingclass lead- the Jewish boycott movement, before May or OQ’ Brien in City Hall yester- ROBERT MINOR Farm Fight Against NRA. to Converge at Chicago Conference City Workers Pledge Aid; Farm Head Calls for Cancellation NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—Offers of solidarity and co-oneration were sent to the thousands of striking farmers throughout the West by Alfred Tiala, head of the United Farmers Leacue, and the Workers International Re- | lief, an ozzanization of city workers and small farmers, intellectuals, pro- | fession='s, etc, Lem Harris, head of the Farmers National Committee of Action, which is organizing the coming National Farm Conference to be held at Chi- cago, made public the following let- ter received from the Chicago section of the W.IR., which reads in» part as follows: “Your program of milk strikes ahd struggles to raise the selling prices of farm products for the farmers, and to lower the cost of farm products for the consuming workers in the cities, fits in with our own struggtes here in the city. Therefore, we must come to a com- stand ready to do all in our power to support the Farmers National Conference... . ” lowing pledge of solidarity from Al- fred Tialo of the U.F.L., which, in part, reads as follows: the no-picket orders of their Farm Holiday leaders, and are eens nerd foie of milk and other lu Wisconsin 10,000, pounds of scab milk were dumped yesterday. "Se-| Philadelphians to Hold Anti-Fascist Meeting| Philadelphia witk witkers will dem- onstrate against lynching end oe saterial aid in the campaign is| fascism on Saturday, Oct. 28, at urgently needed. Funds should be} 1 went to the International Labor De- fense, City.” 80 E. llth St, New York| Vice-President in the Inst elec- | tions, will be the main speaker, Silk Mills Sent Back, Are Picketed PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 25.—Mem- bers of the Acsociated Silk Union (U.T.W.) threw picket lines at noon teday around the plants where 3,000 jacquard workers wer: sent back to work this merning by the leaders of their union (U.T.W.) So enraged were the rank and file silk strikers that they forced their leaders, who had engineered the re- turn to work of the jacquard weavers, including John Elias, to march with them on the picket line. Thus the put through a sell-out agreement which reduccs the wages of lower paid jacquard workers, espevially the Women, were forced by their own members to march on the picket line in protest against an agreement these leaders themselves had put over. In the dye situation practically all of the strikers were back at work to- day, the National Textile Workers Union, in the interests of unity, sending all of its members back to fight inside the shops to mainiain concessions which the militant nol- icy of the rank and file, led by the N.T.W.U., have won in the strike. In the large mills such as Lodi plant of the United Piece Dye, Weidemann’s of the same company, Bluebird and others, the N.T.W.U. is the do-'art- ing union inside the mill. The larg- est shops have no written agreement. with the U.T.W., it was d'sclosed to- day, the companies merely posting notices of the company “requesting” the workers to join the AFL. union whith on successive days has sent the dye and jacquard workers back to work, The movement for one united rank ‘and file union among the dyers is progressing. The N.T.W.U, is hold- ing shop meetings this week to fur- ther this move for unity. The strength of the left wing among the U.T.W. members in the broad silk branch of the strike is Seen in the fact that a large group of rank and file U.T.W. members have artanged a meeting tomo- » *, Thurs- day night, in Turn Hall fie FL. dyers eoeciavastery) where John J. Ballam has been invited to be the princina’ speaker. The silk strike of 10,000 workers continued, but the U.T.W. leaders are carrying on secret nego- tiations and plan to sell out the strike. The United National Strike Com- mittee meets in Paterson tomorrow. The strike meetings of the U.T.W., where formerly every striker was in-| vited to attend, are now guarded | by police, who keep out all strikers except those who hold AFL. cards. To Protest Borich Deportation Tonite’ NEW YORK.—New York workers will rally tonight at the Irving Plaza Hall to protest the strike-breaking imprisonment, torture and death await him. Borich, secre- has been active in the Pennsylvanis active miners’ strike U.T.W. leaders who had signed and! “Camps or Jail,” Says Administrator By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Washinston Bureau.) BULLETIN WASHINGTON, D. ©. Oct. “Some decrease in employment” in manufacturing was repo: by’ the Federal Reserve Board, tor the first half of October. The official statement said indus- trial activity declined duzing Sep- tember and Oc‘ober, industrial pro- duction fal’-~, during September, from 91 to 4 per cent of the 1923- 1925 level. “There have been further advances during recent weeks in prices of fuels, iron and steel, building ma- terials and. house furnishings,” the Tepo:t continued. “Retail prices of food showed little change in Sep- tember, while prices of clothing ad- vanced.” ‘The general average of wholesale prices “relatively stable,” but showed “widely divergent movements” of in- dividucl commodities. “Preliminary reports for the first crease in employment and a con- tinuation of about the same volume of earnings in basic manufacturing industries.” CMe sean The Roosevelt regime today blithe- ly announced that it is speeding a nation-wide drive to concentrate the hemeless unemp’oyed into “transient camps” in which they will be forced | to work for their keep on “minimum care” standards. “Anybody who hasn't lived in one state for a year is eligible,” Federal Emergency Relief Administrator Har- ry L. Hopkins disclosed. “The rail-~ Toads, police and sheriffs may send people to these camps,” The inescapable parallel between the vast Roosevelt project, already under way with more than 500 men encamped in Florida, and the con~ centration camps in which hungry legions sweat at forced labor in Nazi Germany, was volunteered by Merton Milford, official publicity man for the Relief Administration, when he Tushed to assert that the American program will involve no cantonments, barbed wire or shotgun supervision. Hopkins, asked whether moral pressure, at least, would be brought to bear to send the unemployed to the camps or to jail, said, “I don’t think any moral pressure will be needed for any one to choose the ternational Labor Defense, and Olgin, editor of the Freiheit, Edith ea camps instead of jail.” “Will people work in these camps?” “Oh, sure,” Hopkins said. “will they receive wages?” “Enough to keep them.” “And the camps will be on a basis man, girl leader of the textile of 1931, facing deportation to Po! a is expected to send a greeting to the meeting. York?” Ser foe niente Uaby. Wali be od (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) , EYE-WITNESS’ AFFIDAVIT SAYS SHERIFF, LEGION HEAD, OTHER OFFIC‘ALS LEAD MOB |Capt. Spencer Says He Heard State’s Attorney Robins Give Mob O.K. for Lynching | ee pen eT |Rush Telegrams Today Demanding Death to Lynchers and Stay of Execution for Euel Lee To Drive Homeless Unemployed Into. Forced Labor Camps half of October indicate some de- ‘ ‘the public after the v sod Mayor O’Brien (right) not to call off next Sanday’ 's Nazi ze in New York. M inor Forces First Jury Hearing on Injunction’ Minor, Defending Self, Exposes Tammany and N.R.A. Moves to Force Hunger By DAN DAVIS NEW YORK.—The right to have an injunction case under Section 600 tried by a jury was won for the first time in New York State yesterday, when Robert Minor, Communist candi- date for Mayor, forced such a decree from Judge Martin in the| mm Str Ina Brooklyn County Court, at 120 Schemeri court rcom er ers, Minor, yded with work-* defending himself, g for Jack Rosenberg, ed with him on Sept. 6, | inst an injunction erated to an NRA. firm, flayed nd the use of its courts the trial. unis candidate also w forced the court to open its doors to; ers were ear- |) lier refused admissicn. To Judze Martin, Minor said: “I am being jailed as a part of eS 's orders to keep me out of | ne BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. Governor Albert C. Ritchie o stay of the execution of Euel by Attorney David Levinson delay in the Euel Lee case. wrong, I will not interfere. (Daily Worker Sp: BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. To Place Demands on’ ‘Roosevelt Today;| | Harlem Meet Tonight) WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Wash- ington workers will demon-‘vate in front of the White House this noon in support of the anti-lyneh- ing de‘egates from many cities to protest to Roosevelt against the lynching cf George Armwocd and the legal lynching of Euel Lee, set for Friday morning in Balti- more, Md. . ° NEW YORK —William lL. Pat- | terson, Clarence Hathaway, James W. Ford and Herman McKawain of the S.S.NR. will addres a pro- | test meeting in Harlem Thursday evening at the corner of Lenox Ave. and 131st St. This means Euel Lee will 25.—While summoned before a Coroner’s Jury ing of George Armwood, colored worker, in Princess a week ago Wednesday, were unable to remember a single person | in the mob of 1,000 which tortured and hanged him and then * burned his body in the publi¢e —~ BULLETIN — 25,—A last minute appeal to f Maryland for a two-weeks’ Lee, made late this afternoon of Philadelphia for the pur- pose of giving the attorneys for the defense an opportunity te take the case to the Supreme Court of the U. S., was flatly refused by the Governor. The Governor stated tha nt there has been “too much Even if the Circuit Court is I be executed. By JOHN L. SPIVAK 1. Correspondent.) nineteen witnesses “investigating” the lynch+ Anne, Md., square of the town, the Daily Worker today’ presented William L. Patterson, Secretary of the Interna~ tional Lakor DeZense, with a list of names and addresses of the mob leaders who directed the fiendish lynching. Patterson promptly announced that he would lay the list of the lynch leaders be‘ore Governor Albert C. | Ritchie of Maryland and demand that they be indicted for murder. Eye-Witness Names Lead: Some of the mob 1} participated in the ghastly were identified by an e¢; whose offidavit is now in t sion of the Daily Worker. leaders include: State’s Attorney John B. Robins, James Morrison, a resident whose home is two miles outside of Prin- cess Anne; Carl Henderson, R. F. D., No. 2, Box 64; Princess Anne and the Princess Anne Commander of the American Lezicn (name not | the injunctions, especially under the “T, tt re, refuse to be tried be- fore a mmany judge, bit i ad, demand a tria! before a jury of ‘k- ing men and women, Negro and white.” Blasts Injunction Use The veteran leader of the working class spoke for more than half an} hour, showing the method in which N.R.A., are used, though they are fin- ally thrown out of court, to break \ strikes and to drive workers back to; factories under starvation conditions. At yesterday’s session of the court the district attorney's office was rep- resented for the first time. Minor stated that though the district attor- finally decided, d made shreds of the politi- | cal cloak of Tammany surrounding | the court, to gr: e jury trial. Minor asked for an e1 vial, but was told it would be set veith just ‘ordinary speed.” Martin asked that all people who wished to leave the room now, that Minor’s case had leave immediately so that those re- maining would not be disturbed, Almost everybody in the court arose after nong the fo nders of | been concluded, | yet ascertained). Th: are named | ra \ id f Si Work Flooding Hemclven, iio wae vinings Mord or ers 008 ing | rison at the time of ths lynching, | 2 «| in the affidavit now in the porses = | Daily Work: and the (Roosevelt, Ritchie} scitsres tees oot Wi . a Pee te tetert Geract MEE | ore overner ch With Their Protests sci? ssy’taod sary mvt en gating ie atrocity ant 'Anti-Lynch Confer- in sdditioc: to those named: tn. ti ences Call ed in Sev- affidavit, the Daily Worker ascertained eral Cities (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) of simply keeping the men and wo-| men there, as is Camp Tera, New. ‘and walked out. Sarraut Is Called To ney was su} to prosecute, the plaintiff's lawyer, the notorious in- junction attorney, Eisenberg, had been handling the case for the Pro- gressive Table Co., since the day of the arrests, and during the hearing. Judge Doesn’t Know Charges Judge Martin pretended to know nothing of the charges or the issues invotved. In the midst of Minor’s speech, he suddenly asked, “What are the charges?” The district attorney also stated that he was uninformed as to the complaints lodged against Minor, PARIS, Oct. 25—Albert Sarraut, Ratlical Socialist Senator, was asked by Preside>t Lebrun today to form a Cabinet i take the place of Dala- dier’s Cabiact which fell on Monday. Mass opposition to new taxes and civil wage cuts proposed by Daladier to balance the budget, swollen with The issue of property rights,| war appropriations, resulted in his whether a union has the right to| downfall. It is believed that any new picket the property of a puss, became government will resort to inflation the key point of the decision grant-!to balance the budget. Two Good Examples. Follow Them! International Workers Order sent in $458 today to help save the Tasty weet. Boston District rushed $211. ‘These are true revolutionary responses to the cry of our Daily Worker for help, for help to be in a position to pay bills amounting to $10,000 which must be paid at the end of this week. But where are the other Districts? Chicago! ‘Where is New York District? None of these are doing as Minneapolis! Cleveland! Buffalo! much as they could. Most of the Districts are failing miserably in their revolutionary duty to their Daily Worker. Bs aa NS rushed over $211 after holding a District affair for the Daily Worker. Why cent the other Districts do the same? _ ‘The I.W.O. got busy and took up collections among its branches. Why can't the other mass organizations, trade unions, do likewise? . . * ES, we say to you that unless you rouse yourself at once, creditors will be in a position to close down on our only Daily Worker. The Drive is more than two-thirds over, Less than one-third of the $40,000 has been raised. Don’t gamble with the life of the most powerful revolutionary weapon we have. . ERE is only one way you can come to the help of the Daily Worker. HOLD AFzAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER. Sproad the collec- tion lists among worl:crs. Visit mass organ‘za‘ trade unions, have them contribute from their organiza‘ y, take up collec- tions from the members at the meetings. Contribute yoursclf! A minimum of ten thousand dollars must come in this week. At the present rate funds are coming in, the “Daily” will not be able to meet its most pressing bills at the end of this we WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER? IT CAN BE ONLY ONE. RUSH FUNDS IMMEDIATELY to the Daily Worker, 50 & 13th St., New York City. . . . Wednesday's Receipts + $1,075.68 Previous Total TOTAL TO DATE . Form French Cabinet | NEW YORK.—Negro and white workers are swinging into motion throughout the country in vigorous protest actions against the brutal lynching of George Armwood in Maryland last week, and the increas- Negro masses into abject submission to starvation and national oppression, as shown in the preparation for the legal lynching of Euel Lee this com- , |ing Friday in Maryland. The lynch at- tacks are further shown by the frame- ups of three Logan Circle defendants in Washington, D.C. (set for Oct. 29); the turning over of George Crawford to the lynch courts of Virginia and the setting of new lynch trials for the Scottsboro boys, with the sinister prelude of the poisoning of E. L. Lewis, one of the main Scottsboro defense witnesses. Hardly a city of any size that has not its thousands of workers carrying on mass demonstrations against the bosses’ program of mob and legal lynchings. Last Sunday nisht, the | Allen Memorial Church at 101 Snyder Ave., Brooklyn, 2 Negro congre7ation, unanimously voted condemnation of | the increasing lynch terror, and wired and Pre ident Reosevelt for punish- ay wood, and ible for the crime, and for the releace of Euel Lee. In Baltimore, a Citizens’ Anti- j Lynch Committee was formed yes- | terday, with Linwood G. Koger, of {the Walter Green Post of the Ams-- !can Legion as chairman. Edward 8S. Lewis, of the Baltimore Urban League, is secretary. The committee has an- nounced its support of the re: al anti-lynch conference called here for Nov, 12 by the League of Strugcle for Negro Rights and the Interna- tional Labor Defense, ing use of the courts to terrorize the | demands to Gov. Ritchie of Maryland | $31.36 Set As Gold Price; Commodity Prices Soar Upward U.S. Overbids London; Heralds Fierce Money Fight For Markets WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. — With a blast, the Roosevelt government began today to move on to its program of currency war against the countries of Europe by pegging the domestic price of gold at $31.36 an ounce. This is, an advance of | about $2.00 from the previous pri¢e, and an advance of over $10 an ounce over the price at the begin- ning of the Roosevelt regime. It means a fortune for speculators. The Roosevelt price is 22 e above the London price. This fore. London to start comnetitive i to preserve its foreign s. Further inflstionary bate tles are thrs ineviteble. The result on home prices of commodities was immetiately Wheat Icaped un 4 cents & Cotton rose $2 a bale On all markets felt. bushel. within 24 honrs, commodity nrices ate rising swift- lly. In some cases, domestic nrices {heve soared so hich that foreign count are sending soods here even over the high tariff walls. Roosevelt is actine to keep these cheap goods out of the country, in order to force home buyers to the high Roosevelt prices